Posts Tagged ‘rain’

…and we are into our third day of rain.
i am rather ambivalent when it comes to rain. i suppose i do enjoy the lingering cool air and that soppy sentimentality (unintended pun!) that gets you as you sit in your room, staring out into the gloomy sheets of water that just keep coming. i do [...]


i spent the better part of yesterday on the bed in a fit of anaemic dizziness, and could not even roll around to comfort myself because the slightest movement meant contending with nausea and a spinning room.
so i had to be contented with keeping my eyes tightly shut, and entertaining myself with strange dreams about [...]


march, to me, seems to be a marker that we have left “the beginning of the year,” and are well and truly “into the year.” it is the harbinger of spring and things to come; a time of closure and new beginnings. we are no more anticipating events, but are living them.
it has been a [...]


as opposed to the friday the 13th that never was. i’m sure the curse started with the chair, and even though i finally discovered how to raise it ten minutes before i was due to knock off for the day, the damage had already been done, and there was no saving my day.
i also know [...]


three full days of the runs have doused my passionate call for civic action and world peace, but i am too in love with eggs florentine and morton’s (free) steak sandwiches to abstain from food so that things could be just that little bit better, so i shall retire meekly and whine about other things [...]


i was woken up at half-past three in the morning by the gentle whooshing of rain outside. i left my windows wide open, snuggling into the blankets as the wind swung the curtains this way and that.
it is a lovely feeling to be awake at that time of the night (when you are not dead [...]


…it starts pouring just as you are heading off to work…
…your cab driver is cranky and doesn’t listen to what you say…
…he insists on dropping you off at a taxi bay five minutes down the road from your destination…
…he stops the cab about a metre away (must have been!) from the curb, so you end [...]